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I've always thought games with pre-rendered backgrounds were maximum comfy. Post backgrounds/graphics.

>> No.5954706
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>>5954710
I never got far as an idiot child, but I always loved the graphics of Digimon World.

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>>5954714
Final Fantasy VII for the obvious.

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>> No.5954737

>>5954704
Depends.
Some games suffer because they make it hard to tell where the stand-able surfaces are. Foreground and background blend together.

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>> No.5954747

>>5954732
Top /comfy/. Pics like this always motivate me to clean ans organize my workshop

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>>5954737
I've mostly played RPGs that use this technique, and I haven't really noticed navigation issues because of the graphics. I can see where it could be an issue with something faster paced, though.

>> No.5954750

>>5954748
More of a platformer issue.

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>> No.5954753

>>5954750
I've never seen a platformer using pre-rendered backgrounds. Do you have any examples? You're right, it sounds pretty clunky.

>> No.5954758

>>5954753
CDi Zelda is the first thing that comes to mind.

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Myst games always seemed cool, but I'm a brainlet so I could never properly enjoy them.

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>> No.5955120

>>5954704
Pre-rendered backgrounds belong in the same world as Full-Motion Video: A cute evolutionary step to graphics that mattered. Having lived through that time, I'm not a fan of going back to either one of them.

Thanks for the memories but I want a world that I can actually explore and not a pretty picture that I can't.

>> No.5955201

>>5954704
Any examples of games that use FMV to make cool shit? Some Final Fantasy game, probably 7, uses FMV as animated backgrounds with 3D models over it. Killer Instinct I think has FMV backgrounds that animate as you pan around in a curved path.

>> No.5955223

>>5955120
You dont belong here and you talk like a fag

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>>5955201
That's kinda the premise of this thread. Check out some of the games posted above. Legend of Dragoon, Digimon World, FFVIII, FFIX, Chrono Cross, etc.

Or maybe I'm not understanding what you mean.

>> No.5955328

>>5955120
Pre-rendered is what you use when you have a ton of storage space to put game data, and not a lot of processor to create things dynamically.

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Journeyman Project 2 was a fun first person point and click with a mix of pre rendered and fmv graphics.

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>>5955329
The 3rd installment of the franchise introduced free-look and is my personal fave.

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>>5955312
In most examples the CG render is just a static background or the FMV is played as a regular video, but Final Fantasy is animated where real time 3D stuff is drawn over it. Same with Fear Effect.
https://youtu.be/rQBnYPnJqYw?t=708

In Killer Instinct the CG render is always moving and is not static
https://youtu.be/4qV84rhOEJo?t=588

>> No.5955546

>>5954704
Man, Legend of Dragoon was an ugly-ass game. I think I've never played a less memorable JRPG (among mainstream games) in my life.

>> No.5955558

>>5955312
He's talking about actual Full Motion Videos used as backgrounds rather than static pre-rendered images. Like when in Final Fantasy VIII when you walk out of the infirmary and the static background turns into a video (and you can still walk over it until camera pans out, synchronized witht he video):
https://youtu.be/S8Q6pLaabO0?t=357

It happens a few times in FFVII too:
https://youtu.be/fzRPBL9xQog?t=162

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>>5955535
Fear effect looks really cool. I'll check it out, ty.

>>5955546
Sorry, I can't hear your lame opinion through my nostalgia barrier.

>> No.5955568

>>5955558
That's cool as hell.

>> No.5955576

>>5955568
Yeah, unfortunately the video I linked to is recorded from a broken-ass emulator or something. Here's a better one (it's also from the "remaster" version):
https://youtu.be/1X3FUgpLYTI?t=436
There's also a cool series of FMV backgrounds in the Garen attack sequence:
https://youtu.be/C340uP29Nws?t=3670

>> No.5955579

>>5955564
I remember really liking the intro song, sinking a dozen or so hours in the game and quitting on Disc 3 or so out of sheer freaking boredom.

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Starship Titanic

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9: The Last Resort

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>> No.5955614

I liked the backgrounds from Resident Evil 2 and 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXSq3FU7DzE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSX4w8qUzMM

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>>5954704
All adventure games made by french studio Cryo. They are pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwjxLqriZ_A

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>>5955857
I'll check out Cryo. I have a soft spot for Rama by Sierra. A bit of a departure from their typical fare. Based on the book by Arthur C Clarke.

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>>5956154
The original composer for the game showed up on some YouTube video with a few views and shared his original audio files. The game has given me the warm fuzzies ever since desu. I love when devs from older and smaller games show love to fans of their work.

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>> No.5956342

Pre-rendered backgrounds make games look like a play, which I love. It really worked perfectly for FFIX in that way.

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>>5954753
Does this count?

>> No.5956527

>>5956524
it recycles the same sprites, but it does have the shitty aspect of not really indicating the edge of hit boxes.

>> No.5956529

>>5954753
You're a zoomer fag then. Cinematic platformers like Oddworld and Heart of Darkness are a thing.

>> No.5956530

>>5954753
>>5956524
also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIk6YFTzckc

Comfiest game on the SNES

>> No.5956538

>>5956524
Yes
https://youtu.be/vTBnzCb6jMM

>> No.5957180

>>5955340
classic

>> No.5957205

>>5957180
I've never talked to anyone who played it. It's a great game.

>> No.5957335

>>5956529
Not everyone played those games. Oddworld isn't very popular outside of people who obsess about PS1 games. Nobody I grew up with had it except one guy who showed it to me 10 years after it's release. I thought it kinda sucked, but the premise was cool.

>> No.5957352

FUCK MY ASS

>> No.5957359

>>5957335
That's because you were born in 2000. Zoom out of here.

>> No.5957367

Pre-rendered graphics are beautiful. You can kind of get the same effect in a rendered game using fixed angles, but it never looks as good.

>> No.5957369

>>5957359
What is it about people being incredibly mad that other people didn't have their exact childhood.

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>> No.5957676

>>5957352
Go away Nick Mullen

>> No.5957929

>>5954748
What game?

>> No.5957935

>>5957369
no one is mad
he's just calling you out for pretending to have lived through the 90s

>> No.5958349

>>5955340
Based, my dad bought this from comp usa way back in the day on the discount end cap. I played it a lot and it deffo is max comfy.

>> No.5958587

>>5957929
Final Fantasy VII in Mideel. You can reverse image search any of these and get the game.

>>5958349
Good taste. Love that game.

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>> No.5958796

>>5958627
Fail

>> No.5958809

>>5956524
There's nothing wrong with pre-rendered platformers. Most of them just suck because the platforms have angles that don't line up with collision zones.

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>> No.5959182

>>5959173
wot

>> No.5960378

>>5954753
skullmonkeys looked pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRLRDDK4DqU

>> No.5961157

>>5960378
Actually just finished my first playthrough of this. Was obsessed with The Neverhood as a kid, but was too uncoordinated to play Skullmonkeys.